Sounds like they just missed getting top honors at the Darwin Awards!
Neighbors From HELL
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Sounds like they just missed getting top honors at the Darwin Awards!
I just read this thread and I have to say that I have very good neighbors! My word! I'm am lucky. All of the ones I can see all know I brew. One comes over if I haven't invited him in a while and asks why I haven't offered him any lately. The other doesn't drink, but thinks it's funny that I make beer once per month. The last of the three keeps well enough to himself, but did finally (after 10 years) ask what I was doing. I told him. He asked if it was legal. I pointed to the printout of the law on the wall, and he was good with it. Hope they all stay healthy.
we have over friendly neighbors who wont take a clue. we actually built a 6 foot privacy fence and they had the balls to ask if we would put a gate on the part of the fence that is running along their yard. needless to say we said no
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Just moved into my new apartment during the summer but before that I had lived in a different apartment in the same building. While I was in my old apartment our next door neighbors across the hall were from china. Now I love, LOVE trying new foods. However, they would on about a once a month occurance talk my lawn chairs, and there chairs, put them in the front lawn and drape them with cured fish to dry I guess. This wasnt the bad part, they can eat there rotten fish, it never dried because they would put it outside when it was like 70degrees with no breeze. They just rotted in the sun and had flies all over them. The worst part was that they would not rinse off my chairs when they were done with the rotten fish. So there would be little bits of rotten fat and skin and juice pools all over my chairs. Finally I started putting my chairs in the basement but that didnt help much as they would just bring them upstairs like they were community chairs, my last name was written across the back in big black letters.
And that still wasnt the worst part. After a few days you would walk by there apartment door(all of 5 feet from mine) and smell the rotten fish scraps( heads, tails). Once they realized it was stinking, rather than take it to the dumpster immediately, they would take the garbage bag and just put it in the hallway outside our apartment. So now the whole apartment stunk.
When they moved, our landlord was in the apartment almost every day fixing it up for the new tenants. He said it took almost a month of having the windows open, ripping the carpet out and painting the walls before the smell went away. The new tenants say they can still smell fish every once in awhile when they vacuum. Ugh!!
And that still wasnt the worst part. After a few days you would walk by there apartment door(all of 5 feet from mine) and smell the rotten fish scraps( heads, tails). Once they realized it was stinking, rather than take it to the dumpster immediately, they would take the garbage bag and just put it in the hallway outside our apartment. So now the whole apartment stunk.
When they moved, our landlord was in the apartment almost every day fixing it up for the new tenants. He said it took almost a month of having the windows open, ripping the carpet out and painting the walls before the smell went away. The new tenants say they can still smell fish every once in awhile when they vacuum. Ugh!!
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OK - so I have to post this.
My neighbor, who I've described throughout this post, showed up at his foreclosed home yesterday. He moved out last year and the house has been vacant since then. He pretty much stripped the house of anything he could. For some reason the house is still sitting empty. The bank has done nothing about keeping it up. We've had to call the town about maintaining the property, mowing the lawn, etc... The back yard is full of junk. The front door of the home is covered in notices and ordinance violations from the town.
I went fishing yesterday. I came home to find my ex-neighbor with a trailer and pickup truck in his driveway. He was pulling off sections of the fence that runs around the property and loading them into the trailer. He had another guy with him. I said something to him, and he told me to mind my own business. He said it was his property and his fence and he could do whatever he wants to with it. I reminded him that he hadn't made a mortgage payment in about 4 years, nor had he bothered to mow the lawn, so calling it his house was a stretch at best. I told him the fence was the only thing that made living next to his garbage-strewn sh**t hole bearable.
The cops were called immediately. They showed up. They were pissed. They grilled my ex-neighbor for a few minutes and spoke to all the neighbors on the street who showed up to complain to the cops about the situation with he and the house. They made him put the fence back on and told him he'd be arrested if he showed up on the property again.
It turns out the other guy had agreed to buy the fence sections from my ex-neighbor. As soon as the cops showed up this guy kinda freaked. He told the cops he had no idea about the situation and just wanted to leave and didn't want any trouble.
Hopefully this is the last we hear from my ex-neighbor.
My neighbor, who I've described throughout this post, showed up at his foreclosed home yesterday. He moved out last year and the house has been vacant since then. He pretty much stripped the house of anything he could. For some reason the house is still sitting empty. The bank has done nothing about keeping it up. We've had to call the town about maintaining the property, mowing the lawn, etc... The back yard is full of junk. The front door of the home is covered in notices and ordinance violations from the town.
I went fishing yesterday. I came home to find my ex-neighbor with a trailer and pickup truck in his driveway. He was pulling off sections of the fence that runs around the property and loading them into the trailer. He had another guy with him. I said something to him, and he told me to mind my own business. He said it was his property and his fence and he could do whatever he wants to with it. I reminded him that he hadn't made a mortgage payment in about 4 years, nor had he bothered to mow the lawn, so calling it his house was a stretch at best. I told him the fence was the only thing that made living next to his garbage-strewn sh**t hole bearable.
The cops were called immediately. They showed up. They were pissed. They grilled my ex-neighbor for a few minutes and spoke to all the neighbors on the street who showed up to complain to the cops about the situation with he and the house. They made him put the fence back on and told him he'd be arrested if he showed up on the property again.
It turns out the other guy had agreed to buy the fence sections from my ex-neighbor. As soon as the cops showed up this guy kinda freaked. He told the cops he had no idea about the situation and just wanted to leave and didn't want any trouble.
Hopefully this is the last we hear from my ex-neighbor.
Nukinfuts
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Guess I am lucky. I get along great with both my neighbors. I have a key to their house and they have key to my house, ect. We are good friends and help eachother out. Only issue I have is that one guy mows his yard twice a week, which causes me to mow mine three times a week so it always looks better than his. Drives him nuts.
so these guys bought the vacant house next to us. basically abandon for a decade. the other day they were trimming some overgrown trees and cleaning up. my wife was with our boys on that side of the house. one of them started talking to my wife and stopped when I walked up. later, they were all being macho & playing alpha male games while we were in the back yard. I can be an insanely jealous sort. I trust my wife more than anyone I have ever known in my life. it's other people I don't trust. I just might be their neighbor from hell. and I don't mean all nice like as others have posted, but Louisville Dentist kind of nice we we played in Vegas.
I enjoy taking care of my lawn, and take pride in its appearance. Every year, I had the SAME conversation with my neighbor. "Boy, your lawn sure looks nice, how do you get it like that?" And every year, I'd explain.. fertilize every couple months, spray for weeds at double the label rate, and mow no shorter than 3". He'd then proceed to NOT spray for his weeds, MAYBE fertilize once a year, and mow at about 2". The first two, I can deal with -- it makes no difference to me if he fertilizes or not, and I can deal with the weeds along our border. But he INSISTS on mowing anywhere from 2-5' of my property. I don't know if he doesn't know for sure where the property line is, or if he thinks he's doing me a favor (one time he mowed all the way to my garden shed), but it seriously pisses me off. He's mowing at 2" (or shorter), and I'm mowing at 4" in an attempt to let the grass choke out the weeds (which is working rather nicely...EXCEPT for the area he feels he needs to mow). Last time, I even jumped the gun to get ahead of him on the mowing "schedule", thinking he'd see that "Hey, this has been mowed already, I don't have to worry about it". Nope. He mowed it anyway. And what makes it worse is, he's moved away and is trying to sell the house. I THOUGHT I'd finally get a reprieve (maybe even get the chance to make some extra $$ mowing his lawn for him), but NOOOOOO, he loads his mower up twice a week, drives 40 miles ONE WAY to come F up my lawn.
Hey, Just be honest. This is the property line. I mow my side, you mow yours. Since he is moving, make an offer to mow for the same amount as it would cost him is gas money.
Or do what my passive aggressive neighbor did and put up little wire/cloth flags along the property line for a few weeks to remind him of the line.
h-bar
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My boyfriend's upstairs neighbors in his old apartment were a couple that would occasionally argue. One night they had their final rumble. There was lots of yelling, things being thrown around and broken, when finally there was a crash outside the front door. Something was thrown off the balcony. Went outside to check it out, and sure enough, there was an old tube TV laying in pieces not far from the door.
In addition, there was this really orange dude who would ALWAYS be out by the pool reading 50 shades of grey and bickering with his wife (if she was there).
In addition, there was this really orange dude who would ALWAYS be out by the pool reading 50 shades of grey and bickering with his wife (if she was there).
Oompa Loompa orange? 
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Wow, I have great neighbors. Most of them are retired and home all day, but the men still think they're in their 20's on the beaches of Normandy and wouldn't hesitate to take their 80 year old selves across the street and attack anyone breaking into your house. The one guy gives me rhubarb every year for wine, told me to keep the extra carboy he lent me. Another brought me a 2L Erlenmeyer that they had ordered an "extra" of at work when he learned I made beer. We do have one ***** behind us. Her husband seems cool, but is obviously not in possession of his own pair. I'm probably being a reported as a horrible neighbor somewhere on a "I have entirely too many pets and think I'm saving the world by keeping them all" forum. They used to have rabbits in their back yard that butted up to ours with a 6' privacy fence. There are also wild rabbits that roam around the neighbor hood. I've two dogs. A Weim and a mutt that looks like a beagle. it didn't take them long to catch their first wild rabbit and get a taste. Well these dumb neighbors kept their rabbits on the ground with chicken wire about 2 foot high around them. open top. It didn't take long for my little mutt to get 3-4 in one sitting.
I'm going to miss our neighborhood in a couple weeks when we move. We'll have one neighbor about 300 yds away and nothing for another 1/2-1 mile. With good neighbors comes people looking out for you. We'll miss that part.
I'm going to miss our neighborhood in a couple weeks when we move. We'll have one neighbor about 300 yds away and nothing for another 1/2-1 mile. With good neighbors comes people looking out for you. We'll miss that part.
On one side I have a hoarder neighbor. Her son is out of prison and lives with her now. Unfortunately we share a driveway so all of their cigarette butts end up in my yard. On the other side the neighbor cuts into my lawn and is cutting it way too short. Behind me the dog has just about ripped over my fence trying to get at the rabbit that lives in my yard.
RABBIT = FOOD
WOMAN = SEX
BARLEY = BEER
Is there anything wrong with these equations? Sorry Yooper I am not realy a sexist!
WOMAN = SEX
BARLEY = BEER
Is there anything wrong with these equations? Sorry Yooper I am not realy a sexist!
kombat
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Wow, that's pretty horrible. I would've called animal control and pursued having your dog(s) euthanized.
You seem to think it was no big deal, because it was just rabbits. What if it had been her pet cat? Or another dog? Or a baby?
And how did your dogs get over the 6' privacy fence and into their yard to attack her helpless rabbits?
Ever hear of a leash?
Goofynewfie
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+1
aiptasia
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Most of our neighbors are family types or retirees, relatively nice and sane, and keep to themselves. We did have a crazy next door neighbor for a few years though. He had developed advanced schizophrenia in his 20's a little while after marrying his Wife and conceiving their Daughter. When medicated, he was as nice a guy as you'd want to meet, albeit very cautious about talking to people he didn't recognize. I think he never really knew which people were real and which were imaginary until he'd known you for a little while.
His parents bought him the house (both wealthy physicians) and over the course of two years, just got progressively crazier when he went off his meds. His Wife eventually left him and took their little girl. The arguments were epic so I don't blame her for going when she did. He started planting exotic, invasive species of plants in his front yard and stealing water out of all the neighbor's garden hoses in the wee hours of the morning. He began taking outside showers and sponge baths from rain barrels he had set up to collect water. When confronted by the police, he took off through the swamp and mud down the street. He was Baker acted several times.
His parents bought him the house (both wealthy physicians) and over the course of two years, just got progressively crazier when he went off his meds. His Wife eventually left him and took their little girl. The arguments were epic so I don't blame her for going when she did. He started planting exotic, invasive species of plants in his front yard and stealing water out of all the neighbor's garden hoses in the wee hours of the morning. He began taking outside showers and sponge baths from rain barrels he had set up to collect water. When confronted by the police, he took off through the swamp and mud down the street. He was Baker acted several times.
aygov
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Yep, damn those friggin idiots for leaving those rabbits behind a 6' fence in a chicken wire pen... They should have known that you can't control your dogs and keep them from destroying other people's property. They should have fortified it better so your dog couldn't get them. Whenever my dog gets out and wanders around the neighborhood and tears stuff up I just tell my angry neighbors, "You should have built it stronger so he wouldn't have gotten to it!". Freaking amateurs! AMIRITE?
I always trained our dogs to stay in their own yard. I don't like them just wandering around like the cat.
There's not leash laws every where man. How about building a rabbit cage 3 feet or 1 meter off the ground to keep all the animals away from them like your supposed too do. Its stupid to keep domesticated rabbits on the ground.
On my land my dog runs free, but she doesn't eat pet rabbits either, she just watches the deer.
Riddle me this in NC I can shoot your dog dead for chasing and or killing cows/livestock/domesticated rabbits, and the owner of said dog cant do a thing. But if its a pet dog, cat, or person I can be sued? WTF man I cant protect a kid from a dog?
We had a pack of wild dogs (yes I didn't believe it either) of 20 or so come through the bad lands, they ATE 3 calves, We called the dog catcher. He said shoot em or put rat poison in meat balls really thats professional, we decided we had fed them enough. It was sad
CGVT
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You have to be trolling.
Nope rabbits belong indoors
And if not they belong in a hutch.
If you don't know what your doing, you got no business owning them or placing blame, a coyote could have eaten them just the same. Point is if the rabbits would have been properly taken care of it would not have happened.
I'm not trolling. Tell me I'm wrong?
CGVT
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You are wrong.
Your dog went into the neighbor's yard. Let me say that again. Your dog went into the neighbor's yard and killed the neighbor's rabbits and somehow it is his fault?
I am incredulous.
You, are the epitome of the "neighbor from hell"
Your dog went into the neighbor's yard. Let me say that again. Your dog went into the neighbor's yard and killed the neighbor's rabbits and somehow it is his fault?
I am incredulous.
You, are the epitome of the "neighbor from hell"
First It wasn't my dog. Lets get that ignorance out of the way. Second I was stating domestic rabbits need very special attention they can die from a heart attack from yelling near them. Also dogs are scavengers and take easy meals. Somebody said it was the dogs fault and it should be put down I was stating that's wrong. I'm going out on a limb a suggest you didn't read the articles either did you?
Goofynewfie
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Yep..... You are wrong.
let's look at it this way, your 5 year old son is in the fenced back yard playing, and you walk in the house to grab a ball glove so you to can play catch. you were gone 3 or 4 minutes maximum. in that time your neighbors dog jumped over the fence and attacks your son, who then needs multiple surgeries. Who should pay?
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